Turki Nassif

Turki Nassif (19 September 1980-4 June 2016) was an Islamic State leader during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Turki Nassif was born on 19 September 1980 in Kabsh Gharbi, a village near the city of Raqqa in Raqqa Governorate, Syria. Nassif traveled across the border to Iraq in 2003 to fight for al-Qaeda in Iraq against the United States-led coalition, and he returned to Syria in 2008 after being wounded in a firefight. Nassif decided to work as a liquorice seller, and he lived a quiet life until the Syrian Civil War broke out in 2011. Nassif joined al-Qaeda during the civil war, and he would become a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in 2013. Nassif was promoted to be Emir of al-Qahtaniyah during the civil war, and he would be killed when the YPG ambushed his convoy as he fought against the northern Raqqa offensive.